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Linux On The Dell Axim

Posted by timothy on from the michael-are-you-listening dept.

An anonymous reader points to this interesting project to run the Familiar Linux distribution on the Dell Axim. "It includes a picture of the Axim running Linux and directions for loading Linux on the Dell Axim from the CF card. Looks like a good start to this project." It's limited for now (crashes after 15 minutes, must be loaded through the installed version of Windows), but everything starts out that way.

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  1. Is that Linux in your pocket... by Joey+Patterson · · Score: 5, Funny

    or are you just happy to see me?

  2. Crashes after 15min? by Eberlin · · Score: 5, Funny

    These guys are getting too good at imitating the competition!

    Relax, it was supposed to be funny.

    1. Re:Crashes after 15min? by NotAnotherReboot · · Score: 3, Funny

      If they're aiming for imitating the competition, they should write in random crashes. It always crashes after 15 minutes, but why not allow it to crash at 8 minutes, and later at 13 minutes? Keep the users on the edge of their seats!

    2. Re:Crashes after 15min? by SoSueMe · · Score: 2, Funny

      Article: "Though, beware that it currently [colon] panics after about 15 minutes, and when you do the hard reset, it boots back into Windows at factory default settings (meaning, you lose any files you might have stored on it)".

      Imitation is the sincerest form of flatulence.

    3. Re:Crashes after 15min? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Or introduce a version of Clippy that goes something like...

      It looks like you're doing something important
      Would you like:
      * A BSOD
      * An obscure error message followed by a BSOD
      * A call from Doc Watson that shuts off the app
      * Info on whom all your base are belong to conveniently placed on a BSOD

    4. Re:Crashes after 15min? by Moses+Lawn · · Score: 2, Funny

      It should be configurable, preferably with an XML file and an arcane UI. If I want my Axim to crash after 12 minutes, I should be able to.

      It's all about choice, dammit!

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  3. *waiting* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now waiting for the obligatory soon-to-be-Slashdotted "I'm running Apache on my Axim!" news item ...

  4. Re:linux on everything by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're new around here, aren't you?

  5. Imagine a... by Atario · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...deck of 52 of these.

    (Fooled ya, didn't I!)

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  6. Linux on this, linux on that by r84x · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, I do congratulate this fellow on putting Linux on the Axim, but it seems to me that it has no purpose at all... If you really wanted to do something for the coolness of it all, I would like to see an Axim running Mac OS X, and burning CDs. That would be worth posting about.

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  7. Duh by Hatta · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you don't run linux on it, you can't make a beowulf cluster out of it.

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  8. Nagware Linux by SynKKnyS · · Score: 2, Funny

    Crashes after 15 minutes? Well, you have to register it of course! =P

  9. Re:This is the problem with Linux by fishynet · · Score: 2, Funny

    consistent user interface? what? if I go on linux box #1 and type echo "hi" then go to linux box #2 and type echo "hi". they will both spit out the same thing! whats not consistent about that?

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  10. Everything starts out that way.. by Peter+Cooper · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's limited for now (crashes after 15 minutes, must be loaded through the installed version of Windows), but everything starts out that way.

    Or in the case of Microsoft Windows ME Upgrade Edition, stays that way!

  11. Re:Folks that think this isn't a big deal... by fathomDragon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Walking around a campus checking signal strength with something like this is real nice.

    Can you ping me now? Good.